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Newspaper clipping from The Daily Missoulian announcing the internment of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

Newspaper clipping from The Daily Missoulian announcing the internment of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

NEWS
ITEM
THE DAILY MISSOULIAN APHIL 23, 1941
Immigration Taking Over At Fort Here
Post Being Fitted to Accommodate -From 450 to 800 Aliens Who Can Not Be Deported to Own Soil.
Under the recently-announced move by. which Fort Missoula was loaned by the War department, the post gradually is being turned over to the Federal immigration and natural-j izatiori service, and will be fitted to accommodate from 450 to 800 aliens. Five officials of the immigration and naturalization service have been here for several days in conference with Fort Missoula officers in connection with the transfer. W. F. Kelly, Washington, D. 0., chief border patrol supervisor and head of the officials who are here, reports the transfer of the Fort Missoula property to the service will be gradual. Mr. Kelly will return to Washington today.
Department of Justice officials in Washington have announced that the first aliens to he confined at Fort Missoula will be 466 Italian seamen, who were on the Italian liner Conte Biancamana when it was interned in the Panama Canal zone Match 31.
According to Mr. Kelly, the immigration and naturalization service will have charge- of the alien seamen, who are not classed as enemy aliens, but who'can not be deported because of the international situation. ^
Nick D. Collaer, El Paso, Texas, has come here "and will be the of-
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Immigration Will Take Over at Fort
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ficer in charge of the station and the detainees. Dale Francis of the central office of the immigration and naturalization service is here from Washington and will remain as an administrative employe until certain contracts and leases are negotiated.
W. F. Watkins, Spokane, district director of immigration and naturalization, is spending a short time here in connection with the establishment of the station at Fort Missoula. Preston R. McLaughlin, one of the chief border patrol inspectors at Havre, has arrived in Missoula to be an assistant to Mr. Collaer.
Mr. Kelly, who is winding up his 1 affairs here, reported Tuesday night that the 450 to 800 aliens to be Interned at the Fort Missoula station will be in charge of a staff of woll-trained border patrol officers. He said the immigration and naturalization service officials feel that the alien seamen will be handled here without undue incident, and that the station will be orderly and well I disciplined. �
Mr. Kelly said he could not state when the first group would arrive at Fort Missoula.
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Newspaper clipping from The Daily Missoulian announcing the internment of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

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NEWS
ITEM
THE DAILY MISSOULIAN APHIL 23, 1941
Immigration Taking Over At Fort Here
Post Being Fitted to Accommodate -From 450 to 800 Aliens Who Can Not Be Deported to Own Soil.
Under the recently-announced move by. which Fort Missoula was loaned by the War department, the post gradually is being turned over to the Federal immigration and natural-j izatiori service, and will be fitted to accommodate from 450 to 800 aliens. Five officials of the immigration and naturalization service have been here for several days in conference with Fort Missoula officers in connection with the transfer. W. F. Kelly, Washington, D. 0., chief border patrol supervisor and head of the officials who are here, reports the transfer of the Fort Missoula property to the service will be gradual. Mr. Kelly will return to Washington today.
Department of Justice officials in Washington have announced that the first aliens to he confined at Fort Missoula will be 466 Italian seamen, who were on the Italian liner Conte Biancamana when it was interned in the Panama Canal zone Match 31.
According to Mr. Kelly, the immigration and naturalization service will have charge- of the alien seamen, who are not classed as enemy aliens, but who'can not be deported because of the international situation. ^
Nick D. Collaer, El Paso, Texas, has come here "and will be the of-
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
Immigration Will Take Over at Fort
(Continued From Page 1.)
ficer in charge of the station and the detainees. Dale Francis of the central office of the immigration and naturalization service is here from Washington and will remain as an administrative employe until certain contracts and leases are negotiated.
W. F. Watkins, Spokane, district director of immigration and naturalization, is spending a short time here in connection with the establishment of the station at Fort Missoula. Preston R. McLaughlin, one of the chief border patrol inspectors at Havre, has arrived in Missoula to be an assistant to Mr. Collaer.
Mr. Kelly, who is winding up his 1 affairs here, reported Tuesday night that the 450 to 800 aliens to be Interned at the Fort Missoula station will be in charge of a staff of woll-trained border patrol officers. He said the immigration and naturalization service officials feel that the alien seamen will be handled here without undue incident, and that the station will be orderly and well I disciplined. �
Mr. Kelly said he could not state when the first group would arrive at Fort Missoula.
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